The Management Presents
Dispatches
Travel writing in the footsteps of the stars
Part of: The Golden Age of Travel
JUN 15, 2025
Swimming Pools of Classic Hollywood
Discover the most glamourous pools across the globe, that your favourite Hollywood stars once took a plunge in... and now you could too!
From the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle to the cabanas of the Beverly Hills Hotel, discover the iconic swimming pools where Hollywood's elite lounged, schemed, and made history.
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10 of the Best Flamenco Performances from Classic Cinema
Love scenes disguised as cultural appreciation: Travel Old Hollywood's favourite flamenco performances from the golden age of cinema, and how to experience them in person.
Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot: ten of the best flamenco performances from classic cinema, and how to experience the real thing in Spain.
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26 Old Hollywood Hotels You Can Still Book Today
The suites, cocktail bars, and swimming pools where the greatest stars of the 20th century lived, loved, fought, and occasionally threw furniture — still taking reservations.
26 hotels with genuine old Hollywood pedigree — from the Beverly Hills Hotel to Raffles Singapore — still taking reservations, still serving martinis, and still trading on golden-age glamour.
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Becoming Carmen: Hollywood, Flamenco, and the Birth of Tourism in Spain
How a fictional gypsy invented by a Frenchman in 1845 helped save a dictatorship, made Hollywood's love goddesses, and turned Spain into the world's favourite holiday destination.
The story of how Carmen, a fictional gypsy, helped save Franco's Spain, shaped the careers of Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth, and turned the country into the world's favourite holiday destination.
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Bob Mitchum's Music Career: A Humble Homage to Calypso and Country
How the only Hollywood tough guy who couldn't give a fuck about his brand released a calypso album and a country album, and somehow made both of them work.
The unlikely story of how Robert Mitchum, brooding star of Out of the Past and The Night of the Hunter, recorded a calypso album and a country album, and couldn't give a fuck what anyone thought.
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Classic Movies That Will Inspire You to Travel
My ultimate list of old movies that will inspire you to travel to dazzling, far-flung locations, to re-live the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood, on location.
An ultimate list of classic movies that will inspire you to travel, from the French Riviera to Rome, Rio, Venice, Spain and beyond, with tips on visiting the locations today.
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The Classic Hollywood History of Hearst Castle: Celebrity Stories, Scandals, and How to Visit
Once the most coveted ticket in Tinseltown, an invite to William Randolph Hearst's grand Spanish finca in San Simeon was a clear sign that you had made it in 1930s Hollywood.
The celebrity stories, scandals, and shenanigans of Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate, plus how to visit La Cuesta Encantada today.
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